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Roses and Bamboo with Nightingale

Teisai Hokuba

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The image depicts a bird perched on a bamboo stalk. The bird faces right and has a white breast, light grey back, black tail feathers and wings, and a black beak. A white rose with green leaves is at the bottom, and green and grey leaves and bamboo stalks are positioned to the right and top left. The background is beige. There are several lines of Japanese writing on the right and a red seal on the left.

Artwork details

Date:
19th century
Medium:
Part of an album of woodblock prints (surimono); ink and color on paper
Culture:
Japan
Dimensions:
555 × 624 px
Museum record:
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